Contemporary Group news items
Bill Jackson has won the 'best of show' award at The Centre For Fine Art Photography, Museum of Contemporary Arts in Fort Collins Colrado in their international exhibition 'Trains, Planes and Automobiles'.
image © Bill Jackson
At the RPS. AGM and Advisory Board meeting on, 13th October 2007 an informal meeting of Group representatives to parallel the existing meeting of Regional Organisers was held, lead by Derek Birch. The Group meeting turned out to be a very useful and gratifying session.
The representatives were:
Travel: Michael Huggan mjhuggan@btinternet.com (standing in for John Cucksey)
Holography: Graham Saxby grahamsaxby@globalnet.co.uk
Audio and Visual: Bernard Longley No email details on database (contact Keith Scott kscott@photopix.karoo.co.uk )
Historical: Donald Stewart donaldstewart@aol.com
Colour: Bert Crawshaw crawshaw@gotadsl.co.uk
Creative: Barry Freeman barry@bazfree.freeserve.co.uk
Medical: John Arnold John.Arnold@imperial.nhs.uk
Film & Video: Don Harrison. No email details on database (contact John Tarby john@tarby.tv )
Contemporary: Richard Sadler rsadphoto@yahoo.co.uk
Nature: John Bebbington john.bebbingtonfrps@ukonline.co.uk
Digital: John Long johnlong@lineone.net
Imaging Science: Derek Birch derek@birch.name
They were also joined by Simon Bibb (simon@rps.org) of the Membership Department.
Groups could be provided with additional distribution details along with their own membership labels. We will raise the whole issue with Council and the office at Bath.
It was good to see Group publications embracing the "Corporate Identity", with mutual benefit enhancing the status of The Society and the image of individual Groups. A CD with all the details of the Corporate Identity, logo files and examples, was available at the Advisory Board meeting. If any Group did not receive their copy, please get in touch with Bath.
There was a short discussion about websites. At the Advisory Board there had been a helpful demonstration by The Society's website designers of the scope and flexibility of the website. Group websites can be hosted within the main site, at no cost to the Group, and these facilities are well worth exploring.
Lastly, the topic of Distinctions was briefly raised. Obviously most Groups have a close interest and overlap with The Society's Distinctions in their own area. However, the Distinctions processes are clearly governed by the individual Panels and the Distinctions Advisory Board which are separate and independent of any Group, and to which comments, queries and suggestions should be directed.
The active discussions at the meeting meant that we overran the time originally intended - apologies to all those present, but thanks again for the positive and helpful involvement. There was strong support for this to become a regular meeting of Group representatives as an effective forum for exchange of information and a means to provide input to Council on behalf of the Groups.
And to end, as perhaps it was clear to those at the meeting, I had been very surprised and honoured to find that I had been elected to Council at the AGM. The slight delay in issuing this note has been because I wanted to check that the new Council would like me to continue to represent the Groups, and this was confirmed last week. So if there are issues, concerns, ideas or proposals that you would like to put forward or raise at Council, please let me know. Of course, you are always welcome also to go through other contacts on Council or the staff at Bath.
Derek C. Birch ASIS. FRPS. Trustee and Council
Member the RPS.
Email: derek@birch.name
